1 posted on
12/18/2006 3:43:16 PM PST by
blam
To: blam
Surprisingly, these microscopic organisms look quite familiar to today's scientists. Surprisingly? Why is that a surprise? Protozoans stumbled upon a winning formula. Why change when there's no pressure to?
2 posted on
12/18/2006 3:44:52 PM PST by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: SunkenCiv
GGG Ping.
3 posted on
12/18/2006 3:45:21 PM PST by
blam
To: blam
To: blam
Someday we'll open a real Pandora's Box.
6 posted on
12/18/2006 3:49:05 PM PST by
umgud
(I love NASCAR as much as the Democrats hate Bush)
To: blam
Have any single cell creatures changed much in 200 million years? Doesn't seem like they necessarily would. Colonies, i.e., animals might change, evolve, considerably while retaining the same kinds of cells all along.
8 posted on
12/18/2006 3:51:23 PM PST by
RightWhale
(RTRA DLQS GSCW)
To: blam
If it ain't broke don't fix it.
9 posted on
12/18/2006 3:52:51 PM PST by
cripplecreek
(Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
To: blam
You've been busy lately Sir. Thank you.
Why are these micro organisms so familiar? Gram positive, negative? Acid fast?
If I remember my "Bergys" correctly, there are so many thousands of types that some writer saying anything about 'familiarity' is rather silly.
We don't even know all of the bugs living today, never mind what was dominant 100 million years ago.
10 posted on
12/18/2006 3:54:59 PM PST by
Radix
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To: blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; ...
Thanks Blam. Microbe, your crobe, everybody's crobe ping.
I guess we know which is the toughest on the planet, germs or dinosaurs. Nice try, saurian wussies.
Hey, did anyone find the princes?
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12 posted on
12/18/2006 4:11:45 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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To: blam
How soon will some bozo scientist decide to grow some of these things and forget to lock them up tight one night?
15 posted on
12/18/2006 4:16:15 PM PST by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: blam
How about considering that the protozoans alive today consist in part of the same living all those eon ago. If they divide at the cellular level and never die in the conventional sense, the original organism still lives.
17 posted on
12/18/2006 4:23:19 PM PST by
bert
(K.E. N.P. Rozerem commercials give me nightmares)
To: blam
Cortina d'ampezzo
that's it, way down there...
19 posted on
12/18/2006 4:35:01 PM PST by
Fred Nerks
(MEDIA + ENEMY = ENEMEDIA!)
To: blam
How do the investigators date amber at 135MM years? Any ideas?
28 posted on
12/18/2006 6:45:48 PM PST by
Chaguito
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